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SchwiftyMpls t1_izd96s7 wrote

Reply to comment by spinswizzle in Advice for first time drywall patch by astropiano1998

Old tradesmen Fucking hate change or doing things differently then they were taught.

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SnowyNW t1_izdbinj wrote

Do you know how many people out there are trying to differentiate themselves by deviating their approach ever so slightly, usually adopting older parallel abandoned but slightly less effective methods? This is called ego and marketing and humans are sick with that stuff. There’s a reason things are done a certain way, and it’s a good reason. But this reason only holds if your source of knowledge isn’t a complete block head and is focused on doing things the right way for the sake of doing it the right way, rather than other reasons. Then there is also incompetence.

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SchwiftyMpls t1_izdboum wrote

Lol keep telling yourself this. It is stopping us from saving the earth.

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SnowyNW t1_izdg418 wrote

Are you kidding me? That’s the exact point that I’m trying to make is that all this needless deviation from historically proven traditions is causing terrible calamities such as the extinction of the entire biosphere! Plastic instead of glass and wood? Giving up millennia old forestry practices and causing historic and unnecessary wildfires? The earth is dead because we want to do things new and different instead of tried and true. You beat me to the punchline but somehow have the opposite point of view, I’m completely baffled to be honest. Traditional farming, building and social practices could have stopped a lot of this.

On the other hand humans are the most effective natural iterative design network the universe has ever seen.

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SchwiftyMpls t1_izdutw2 wrote

So you don't want to feed 8 Billion people.

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SnowyNW t1_izdwh9n wrote

Why don’t you want to feed people?

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SchwiftyMpls t1_izdwod3 wrote

I'm done here. I won't argue with Idealists. it's a waste of time.

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SnowyNW t1_izdwwqh wrote

You’re not saying anything coherent anyways

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spinswizzle t1_izezid2 wrote

It’s to prevent debris and floaters when you skim. It’s not about being stuck in old ways it’s about production and high end workmanship that dOesnt need a ton of filling afterwards. Scraping a joint might work on small patches. Try that on a whole townhouse complex and watch yourself get kicked off site. Plus….I’m only 51. That’s not old. I’m still learning all the time And I’m the first one to do something new…if it makes sense.

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